Fresh thinking for lawyers and the legal profession

About LegalRefresh

Welcome to LegalRefresh. We’re glad you found us. The idea of this forum is to highlight and discuss what’s innovative, interesting, or occasionally infuriating about our profession. Not just the usual stuff, but some ideas, people, and developments you might not have heard about.

These statistics highlight real problems, but we don’t think they tell the whole story. The need for legal services has never been greater, and the legal profession stands to gain as much as any industry from the information technology revolution. With higher demand and lower input costs, the legal profession should be more vibrant and upbeat, not less.

In our posts and those of our guests, we’ll be highlighting innovative people and ideas that can change the practice of law for the better. Like the state bar association that’s taking the pro bono work of their members online to reach many more clients. And we’ll look at things like why it’s often easier to find information on the Web than in the typical law firm, and what you can do about it.

We hope you find it useful and thought provoking. Most of all, we hope you join the conversation. As an American president once observed — ““Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”